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The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-01-28

The ST. louis Gio5s- Demorra, relates
that while Edwin Booth was in Mil
sasikee this year he has a very curious
experience With an autograph hunter. A
gentleman called on him at. his hotel.
and having gainsd admissiosto his room
asked him Il he would kindly write his
autograph in an album which he lthe Wis
itor had brought with him. Mr. Booth
answered with a courteous affirmative.
Tie visitor opened the album at a c.rtain
pace, which he had marked, and said
to NJ. Booth; Please write your name
under that onr.' Mr.. Booth at glance
ssW that the name under which he was
asked TO put his autograph was that Of
his dead brother, the assassin Of Mr.
Lincoln--J. Wilkes Booth. Without
saying a word or looking up at his Wis
itor, he closed the album with an angry
-eiasn and threx II violently Against the
nearest wall The autograph hunter
toak the hint picked up his book and
walked out Of the room"
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-01-28
To a Young Housekeeper.

One of the best ru es ever given BY
mother to daughter Just about to begin
housekeeping was. Always see every
part of your house from garnet to cellar
at least once day; the servants get to
know this, and consequently they never
throw things into corners, or leave I'M
tidy closets" This is especially good
advice concerning the kitchen: Make
point of opening pantry drawers, lifting
the washtub ids, take look into the
refrigerator every morning, and see what
difference it Will make on the cooks
neatness. A good mistress can always
manage to do this while she is giving
the days orders, and in such way as
not to offend the girls feelings; for
lmeAand the best girls-are very sen
sitiye about being watched, or rather at
having their ability to keep a tidy
kitchen doubted. At the same time, the
knowledge that her mistress is more than
likely to take look into the refrigerator
at any time will greatly influence the
putting away of provisions and keeping
the waste-pan empty. HGrPer's Basdr.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-01-28
HOUSEHOLD MATTERS
Worms in Flower Pots.

In the use of lime water to destroy
earth, worms in the soil of flower pots,
some persons fear injury to the plants by
using it too strong. and therefore neg
lect to employ it altogether 1t should
be understood that lime water will not
injure plants And by lime water is
meant water contsin.ng all the lime it
will hold in solution. This is a definite
quantity. and cannot be increased, no
matter how large an amount of lime in
excess is used for a certain quantity of
water. The water will hold so much
and no more After Stacking lime in
water it is allowed to settle, and then
the clear liquid is poured off; this is
line water. The soil OF plant can be
saturated with j. by pouring it on, or
by immersing the pot in it for a time.
This operation will destroy earth worms,
or compel them to eseape. = VieFs Floral
Guide.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-01-28
Taken In.

A saloonkceper up Gratiot street sat
at his door the other afternoon wonder
ing why it was that so many men in
Detroit preferred buttermilk to beer.
when two strangers came along. One
of them placed penny on the sidewalk.
placed his right heel on the penny, and
then bent over to see how far he could
reach and mark the fiagstone with a
nail As he reached out he lifted his
heel off the penny, and the other man
picked up the coin, slipped it into his
pocket and winked at the saloonist.
"That.s long reach, " said No. l, as
he Strengthened up.
'Yes. but you lifted your heel of the
cent"
NO, l didn't
''Bet you dollari''
'fI'll take it,"
''Hold on, shentlemens, said the beer
seller, as he rose up; II like to make
some bets myself.
an bet you 50 my heel is % penny, y
said No. /.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-01-28
LincoIn's Mother.

There is something very pathetic in
the story of Abraham Lincoln's loss of
his mother when but little boy, as told
in Nicolay and Hays Life of Lincoln. 1t
happened in the unhealthy backwoods
settlement where they lived The coffin
WAS made out of green lumber cut with
a whip saw, and she was buried, with
scant ceremony, in little clearing of
the forest. 1t is related of little Abra-
ham, that he sorrowed most of all that
his mother should nave been laid away
with such MANNED rites, and that he
tried several months later TO have q
wandering preacher, named David Elkin.
brought TO the settlement, to deliver a
funeral sermon over her grave, already
stiff and white with the early winter
snows.-SiftiagS.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-01-28

81 take dot bet awful queek. n replied
the saloonist, and a couple of 81 bills
were handed to No. 2.
No. sat down on the walk, pulled of
his shoe and held it up that the saloon
keeper might see a penny screwed fast
to the heel He replaced his shoe after
a moment, rose up and bowed court
eousiy, and the pair walked off. They
were at least half a block away before
the victim recovered sufficiently to say:
''pheh lfVhell, I pays taxes in two
wards und goes twice to Chicago. but
yet | vhas some lunaties who ought to
be led around NIT rope li-Detrot Fro,
PTesS.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-01-28

she can'tcOnirol her tongue or ''He
can't control his tongue are frequently
heard in this world where people, beng
uHable 70 control the very tongues that
make use Of the phrase, talk great deal
shout taeir neighbers. But there IS in
ST. Louis man who literally cannot con
troll his tongue, and the county medical
society is looking into his case. Bolts is
tie man's name. Muscular action being
involuntary. his tensus shoots in aud out
Of his mouth as does the tongue of
snake.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-01-28
A Bows opeer Act

A telegraph boy of sixteen years of
age has shot himself because he was for
hidden to join brass band-one of the
most morbid ambitions, surely, that ever
beset youthful imagination.
Farewell to my mother aud father SO dear,
Farewell 70 my brother, although he's not
here,
Farewell to the brass band I've longed to be
in"
was written on paper lying beside him,
covered with his blood and brains
London Litter,
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-01-28
Where 10 Reside.

A good place for anarchists Bombay.
No ring there-Belfast.
Free from riots-Concord.
A rural resort for miIkmen-Cowes.
Aretreat for scolding women-shrews-
bury.
Affords rare facilities to fugitives es-
Gaping from justice Hyde PARK.
A desirable place for inquisitive PEG
ple-Pekin.
Where one may find plenty of game
Lyons.
A popular resort for gamblers-Luck-
now
The first in importance
1t has no fascination for dogs-Bo
logna. Life
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-01-28

Tulsse university, at New Orleans, to
which New York woman has recently
given 800, 600, is to be the recipient Of
the valuable archives Of the Lou isiana
Historical Society. Druing the civil wal
the building in which they were kept WAS
pillaged and the contents were carried
north The secretary Of the Wisconsin
Historical Society discovered ihom in
the possession Of a soldier in Iowa. pur-
chased and kindly returned them to their
original home.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-01-28

Fifteen years ago the buifaio ranges of
Kansas and colorado we're covered with
Thousands Of these animals. The other
day party went out from Denver, and
after weeks hunting managed TO kill
three from he'd Of twenty nine that
they found in Lost Park. Il is said that
there are not more than 9. 600 buifaloes
now in existence. Systematic slaughter
has produced this shameful result.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-01-28

Oh. Farmer Jone, Is q nan Of strength
At lifting great weights h. all other ioiKs
knocks.
Throughout this great worlds breadth and
length -.A
Hes known as THE man with the strength
Of an OK
n Won wrestle .sifE him you Will come to
But one thing he hasn't ths strength to lift.
And that is the mortgage upon his farm
-GoodaIps sur
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-01-28

He had been counting her long time,
so long that she began to get tired; so
one night she said to him;
John, who is author OF the phrase,
'NIan proposes7n
''l'm sure do not know answered
John. why do you ask!''
"Ohl l merely wanted to know who
he was
''For what reason"
because l guess he didn't know what
he was talking about
Five minutes later the wedding day
was set.-B9s'On Courier.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-01-28
BUDGET OF FUN.
HUMOROUS SKETCHES FROM
VARIOUS SOURCES.
No Possible Hope-A Gentle Hint
Not n Manufactory-How George
Was Captured A Sweet
hearts Ingenuity. Etc.

At night upon the porch roof, fat,
The felines make a clatter,
The sleepless boarder yells out "scatru
And they-don't scatter.
And then he throws out brick bat,
But 1t don't batter,
And when he SHES out the door nat
It-doesn't matter:
Aud then he gets great big gun,
Well filed til shot aud powder,
And fires; but they do not run,
They lie there and yell louder.
Detroit Free Press.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-01-28
TIE Last Of the BnaaIo.

Lost Park is 50 hard Of access that the
few bison still IN the State find that local
ity place Of comparative safety. Out
side Of the remainder Of this herd. TWEEN
ty-siK IN number. Mr. SVEN says there
are seven bison Of this variety still ex-
isting In the tuited Stsies and twenty OF
anofheT. The herd Of seven, according
70 Mr. Sven, Is located on Rabbit Ear
Range. between Middle aud South Parks.
The other smail herd Is said TO be under
eoesrnment protsctionin the Yellowstone
Park. The range in lest fark is twenty
four By seventy i've miles in length and
has an elevation Of nearly IL, SEQ feet -
Dsnrsr T-i5Bae.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-01-28
Long Cavalry Marches.

From Arizona comes news of an ex-
cellent march by General Forsyth-10t
miles in forty eight hours with troop of
cavalry. He says it is the longest
cavalry march on record, statement
that is open to doubt aud that may be
worth investigating. 1t is on record that
the First Dragon Guards, British
heayy cavalry regiment, marched in
England q few years ago, under no par
ticu ar stress of circumstances, forty five
miles between daylight and dark-say
four zen hours, and the Germans and
Ryss ians have some long marches on
recoi'd.-Sda traHeisoo RePOrf.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-01-28

In st. Petersburg the police can at any
tsno enter any dwelling 10 search for
Nlhilists, and there il no hshets
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-01-28

! There are numerous Masonic lodges in
France composed exclusively of women
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-03-17

ri drink 70 make me work, ., said a
young man one day. To which an old
man replied, ..That's right; thee drink
and II will make thee work. Hesrken
TO ms . moment and I'll tell thee some
thing that may do thee good. I was
once a prosperous farmer. had u
good, loving vito sad two ~ dns lsds
as ever the sun shone on. We had u
comfortable home and lived happy
together, bnt we used to drink ale to
make Us work. Those two lads I;have
laid in drunkards' graves Ny Nife
died hroken-hearted, and sho nOv bes
by her two. sons. ! am seventy-two
years of age. Had 1t not been for drink
I might now have been an independent
gentleman; but I used to drink to make
me work. and. mark. itmskes me work
now. At seventy years Of age am
obliged TO work for my daily bread.
Drink. and It will mske thee work"
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-03-17

Mrs. Lydia e. Pinkham, Lynn, Mass. {:
about the first Of September, 1881, my
wife was taken with uterine hemorrhsge.
The best styptics the physician could pre-
scribe did not check 1t and she got more and
more enfeebled. She was troubled with
Prolapsus Uteri, Leucorrhoea, numbness Of
the limbs, sickness Of the stomach and loss
of appetite. I purchased q trial bottle Of
your Vegetable Compound. She said sh1
could discoVer salrtary effect from the first
dose. Now she is comparatively free from
the Prolapsus, Stomach's sickness, &c.
The hemorrhage Is very much better and is
less at the regular periods. Her appetite
10 restored, and her general health and
strength are much improved. We feel that
we have been WoSderJully benefited and our
hearts are drawn out in gratitude for the
same and in sympathy for other sufferers,
for whose sakes we allow our names to be
used" G. W. EATON, Thurston, N. Y.
The Compound 10 put up in Pill, Lozenge
and Liquid form. All sold by druggists.
The Pills and Lozeuges sent by mail on re-
ceipt of price.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-03-17

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The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-03-17
SOUTHERN INDUSTRIES.

Marvellous Development Of the south's
Manufacturing and Mineral interests.
When we come to the New Indus
trial South the change Is marvellous.
and 50 vast and various that l scarcely
know where to begin in short paper
that can not 60 much into details. In
stead Of q South devoted to agriculture
and politics, we find South wide
awake to business, excited and even
astonished at the development of its
own immense resources in metals, mar
bles, coal, timber, fertilizers, eagerly
laying lines of communication, rapidly
opening mines, building furnaces,
founderies and all sorts Of shops for
utilizing the native riches. 1t is like
the discovery of new world. When
the Northerner finds great founderies in
Virginia using only (with slight excep-
tions) the products of Virginia iron
and coal mines; when he finds Ala
baina and Tennessee making iron
SO good and so cheap that it finds
ready market in Pennsylvania, and
founderies multiplying near the great
furnaces for supplying Northern mar
kets; when he finds cotton mills rum
ming to full capacity on grades of cheap
cottons universally in demand through
out the Sout and Southwest; when he
finds small industries, such as paper
box factories and wooden bucket and
tub factories, sending all the, can
make into the North and widely over
the West; when he sees the loads of
most beautiful marble shipped North;
when he learns that some of the largest
and most important engines and mill
machinery were made in Southern
shops; when he finds in Richmond u
"pole locomotive" made to run on
logs laid end to end, and drag out from
Michigan forests and Southern swamps
lumber hitherto inaccessible; when he
sees worn-out highlands in Georgia and
Carolina bear more cotton than ever
before by help of fertilizer the base
of which is the cotton seed itself (worth
more as fertilizer than it was before
the oil was extracted from it; when he
sees multitude of small shops giving
l
dren who never had any work of that
sort to do before; and when he sees
Roanoke iron cast in Richmond into
car irons. and returned to a car factory
in Roanoke which last year sold three
hundred ears to the New York & New
England railroad-he begins to open
his eyes. The South is manufacturing
a great variety of things needed in the
house, on the. farm and in the shops,
for home consumption, and already
sends to the North and West several
manufactured products. With iron,
coal. timber contiguous and easily OBJ
tanned, the amount sent out is certain
to increase as the labor becomes more
skillful. The most striking industrial
development to-day is in iron, coal,
lumber and marbles; the more encour.
aging for the self-sustaining life of the
Southern people is the multiplication
of small industries in nearly every city
I visited. Dudley Warner, IN
Harper's Magazine.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-03-17
ACUTE RHEUMATISM.
Two Measures for the Prevention Of Thil
Painful Constitutional Disease.

Two Measures for the Prevention of This
Painful Constitutional Disease.
Acute rheumatism is constitutional
disease, characterized by fever, infiam-
nation of the larger joints, and tend
ency to attack the heart and its men,
branes. Two hundred and thirteen
persons died from this cause in Massa-
chusetts during the year 1885, or about
one to every one hundred and seventy
nine deaths from all causes. But .
large majority of all cases end in re-
cOvery.
Rheumatism is produced by the ac-
emulation of a poisonous material in
the blood, deposited near the joints.
The disease prevails most largely
in temperate climates, especially
those in which the air is
charged with moisture. and which
are characterized by sudden changes
of temperature. Liability to the dis
ease is increased by those occupl tions
which involve exposure to sudden
changes of temperature, by living in
damp houses, and especially by sleep
ing in damp rooms or in damp sheets.
First attacks are rare after fifty years
years of age, and most common from
fifteen to thirty. Each attack increases
the liability to subsequent ones, and
the danger to life also increases with
each attack. More males than females
are affected, probably because of their
great exposure. Disease of the heart
is the almost invariable result of re-
peated attacks, and is the most COM
mon cause of death.
The measures of prevention are of
two classes. The first consists in keep
ing the organs Of assimilation and ex-
cretion active, the blood in good condi-
ton and the system in general in the
highest state of health possible. The
second consists in avoiding sudden
changes of temperature. especially exc
posure to cold and wet when heated,
sleeping in damp rooms and other con-
ditions already named ~ predispos-
ing causes. Congreqationalist.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-03-17
Dangerous Tobogganing.

A very pretty and exhilarating
sport is tobogganing. and it does not
seem to be falling, like the roller-skate
business, into the hands Of the devil.
Benny Franklin drew some memorable
morals from paying too dear once for
q whistle; and In like manner am re-
minded of several other things. when l
see the merry crowd coasting down
their snow-slide.
Inotice that they all start slowly at
the top of the hill. That Is just the way
Harry Tipplecup began his champagne
glass. He felt some twinges when he
swallowed his first glass of wine ut a
party; but he had tried another before
he left the parlors. for q stylish rfiend
asked him to drink with him, and SO
gave push to the toboggan. Harry
saw plenty Of ale and bourbon on the
tables of the business men at the
restaurant where he took his daily
lunch. Some called for it ITO help d.
gestion. :" and he soon fancied that it
helped his also. The subtle appetite
increased SO rapidly that last year his
employer said to him; Harry, can
not have book-kesper in my store
who has to 20 out three or four times q
day for his dram, and who is not fit to
go: home to his family at night. l
must discharge YOU" The poor fellow
had very little idea, when he started
his toboggan SO merrily. that he
would soon lose all control of it, and
be capsized, with his bloated face and
empty pocket. into ruin. The danger
with him now is that, instead of a total
abstinence pledge. he will drink all the
harder to drown his troubles. Rev.
Theodore 8. Cxyler. D. D.. in United
Presbvteftas. 4E
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-03-17
What Would Be the Rs.ult9

While we may differ with regard to
the method of Temperance. we will not
differ with regard to the don,ination Of
the saloons, aud the necessity for Inn
mediate aud united action against
them. What is ssloone The ques-
tion Is different one from the drink
ing question. The saloon Is place in
which drinking is an instrument used
for the pauperism of the community;
for the destruction Of the morals Of the
community. have never heard but
one argument for the saloon that had .
plausible look. That argument was
this: A poor man must have . place
where be can have . comfortable even
Ing, Pleasantly lighted. and where he
can reed the papers. He must not be
driven to his uncomfortable home.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-03-17

That SOUNDS well. But is It truep
have made q careful estimate Of what
it costs poor man to go into saloon
and spend an evening. He can't go in
without buying drink. Then he has
to treat Jim or Mike, and by the time
he has read tho newspapers, IL has cost
him one dollar He can't spend his
evening in the saloon for less. Now,
suppose the poor man, instead Of spend.
ing that one dollar in the saloon, had
used it to beautify his home, to make
It comfortable. What would be the re.
sultp You know as well as do.-Rev
HoWard CROSBY. d. D.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-03-17

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